Questions and Issues

**pnuker** · March 18, 2009

ok, there's a lot of things you can do with vaultwiki i'm gathering. I just have no idea about a few of the features so far. I'm finding it really difficult to find decent documentation about a lot of things; everything is kinda scattered around in little pieces here & there...very hard to navigate...

First, a couple of problems i'm having so far.

after i updated to 2.2.1, when i try to create a new article, it brings me to the vb FAQ - Smilies page....
after i changed to "simplify wiki links", when i click on a link in the table of contents or the "top" link in any particluar section, nothing happens. doesn't jump to the sections or the top.

Other Questions I have:

I see that there's namespaces in the namespace manager for special, template, header, and book. What do I do with these?
I kind of have a grasp on what books are, but how do i use them? is it the equivalent of a top level wiki forum? i don't see any tab for it in my articles.
what is the purpose of special pages?
what is the purpose of templates?

I have looked at the list of wiki codes over here - http://www.vaultwiki.org/pages/Special:Wikicodelist but every wiki code has the exact same description and doesn't really explain WHAT the code can be used for.

I'm kind of new to the whole wiki scene, so I'm kinda in the dark right now about the functionality and structure of everything right now...still got a lot to learn

**pegasus** · March 19, 2009

I am having trouble reproducing your first issue on a fresh board. You should post a bug report in the other forum section about the vB Smilies FAQ.

I have noticed the TOC link problem you pointed out where you can't jump to sections or the top. You can now download a fixed clientscript/special_sections.js in the current (unstable) package. I would also recommend overwriting your vault/tabs/special_tab_edit.php file.

As for your other questions... The header namespace is where those forum headers are stored that I was telling you about earlier. They are similar to vBulletin notices except that you can use wiki codes in them.

To find out more about books, you should read the first two posts of this thread: https://www.vaultwiki.org/showthread.php?t=1581. You noted you can't find the tab - it won't appear until you complete the first step I mention there.

Special pages provide statistical info about your pages. It makes it easier to keep track of which pages are being worked on, and which pages need work. Try visiting Special:Specialpages and look around.

As for templates, perhaps the best explanation that has been given in Special:WikiCodeList. You are somewhat mistaken by saying that EVERY code has the same description. This is only true for a majority of the codes in the "Wiki Linking Codes" section. The [template] section however discusses how to use its additional features.

For a complete description of every wiki code and example usages, look at Special:WikiCodeList again. The section called "Other Wiki Codes" will probably be the most informative for you.

While we are working on the documentation on this so new wiki users have a clue what many of the terms mean and how to do everything in the 6 ways each thing is possible, because we started doing this so late in VaultWiki's life and based on the number of features we have at this point, this is a VERY slow and cumbersome process.

**pnuker** · March 19, 2009

I am having trouble reproducing your first issue on a fresh board. You should post a bug report in the other forum section about the vB Smilies FAQ.

After I put in the title and click "start editing", it brings me to http://mysite.com/wiki.php?do=create, which shows my smilies faq for some reason, which is the same page that is found at http://mysite.com/misc.php?do=showsmilies. This just happened right after i upgraded to 2.2.1. So I can't create any new articles right now...

I've also found that I'm unable to create any new namespaces now after the upgrade. I get the error: "Invalid Forum Specified". Also, when I click on "Rebuild all Namespace" I get a database error:

Code:

Invalid SQL:

						SELECT threadid, title
						FROM thread
						WHERE forumid IN ();

I'm kinda stranded till I can get this stuff worked out...

I have noticed the TOC link problem you pointed out where you can't jump to sections or the top. You can now download a fixed clientscript/special_sections.js in the current (unstable) package. I would also recommend overwriting your vault/tabs/special_tab_edit.php file.

That fixed it, thanks

**pegasus** · March 19, 2009

This happened when you changed you file name setting. You also need to add this rule, even before the other rules we added.

Code:

RewriteRule ^wiki.php(.*)$ showwiki.php$1 [L,QSA]

From what it looks like, you are getting "Invalid Forum Specified" and that database error because you have not entered a forum for the Default Namespace (which you have named Wiki), which it keeps trying to fix every time you attempt to save a namespace.

**pnuker** · March 19, 2009

Ok, i'm able to make new articles now with the added htaccess rule.

I still cannot add any namespaces, or even add a forum to the default namespace, or books, or any of the other included namespaces. I've created top level forums for these and have set the wiki to disable just like it says in the instructions...still the same error

Also still get db error when i click "rebuild all namespaces" and also when i try to rebuild the default namespace.

**pegasus** · March 19, 2009

Okay, I think I found it. Open vault/special_dm_namespace.php for editing. Find:

PHP Code:


$vbulletin

Replace with:

PHP Code:


$this->registry

**pnuker** · March 19, 2009

Great, that fixed the adding namespaces issue, thanks

I was able to create a book article, then I went back to one of my other articles and clicked on the "book" tab and got this db error:

Code:

Database error in vBulletin 3.7.3:

Invalid SQL:

		SELECT visible, forumid, thread.threadid, title, open, postuserid, dateline,
			article.protection, MAX(chapternumber) AS chaptercount
		FROM thread AS thread
		LEFT JOIN vault_article AS article ON (article.threadid = thread.threadid)
		LEFT JOIN vault_book AS chapter ON (chapter.bookid = thread.threadid)
		WHERE thread.threadid IN (4714)
			
		GROUP BY thread.threadid
		ORDER BY title ASC
		LIMIT 0,0;

MySQL Error   : Unknown column 'article.protection' in 'field list'
Error Number  : 1054
Request Date  : Thursday, March 19th 2009 @ 06:48:19 PM
Error Date    : Thursday, March 19th 2009 @ 06:48:19 PM
Script        : http://www.1perfectworld.com/wiki/International-Guides:Human Quests&do=book
Referrer      : http://www.1perfectworld.com/wiki/International-Guides:Human+Quests
IP Address    : 71.63.142.197
Username      : pNuker
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.67-community